While Hao Yun was busy designing the AR version of Minecraft, the first Minecraft Creative Architectural Design Competition officially kicked off.
A total of 270,000 players submitted their works.
While the competition is popular, it also adds a lot of difficulty to the review of works.
Fortunately, Yunmeng Games has recently recruited a large number of interns, and most of the review work has been handed over to these interns, which has not had a big impact on daily work.
"There are 270,000 works... After filtering out the unqualified ones, there are still more than 100,000 works," Jiang Lexeng, dragging the progress bar of the form and sitting in front of the computer, said with emotion, "How can we choose from so many works. "
Du Ziteng, who was standing nearby, said with a smile.
"Isn't it hard to say? Just choose one or two hundred works with the largest amount of work and put them on the official website, and let the players vote on them. That's it."
asked an art department employee.
"Isn't this unfair to the average players who don't have a fan base?"
Those players who have a fan base can canvass fans directly for votes. And those players who do not have a fan base, no matter how excellent their works are, will be at a disadvantage compared to those players who have a fan base.
Du Ziteng thought for a while and said.
"It may indeed be a little bit, but with our player base there, the impact shouldn't be huge."
Moreover, Minecraft has only been online for less than two weeks. Even if many expert players with large fan followings have been born during this period, the fan stickiness will not be to the extent that fans will unconditionally take sides.
Besides, popularity is also part of strength.
Being able to get the support of so many players, it must have its own merits.
While Yunmeng Games was busy selecting works, Zhou Xuan, who was far away in the boys' dormitory of Jiangcheng University, was also staring at the screen meticulously, instructing the players in the server to build the magnificent Forbidden City in a 1:1 ratio.
Wang Ziyi, who was sitting at the next table, turned to look at his screen and asked.
"We have only built a foundation now. If we continue at this rate, will we still have time for this competition?"
Zhou Xuan sighed and said.
"It's a bit uncertain. The time given by the competition deadline is too tight... I can only say that I will do my best."
In his original plan, he planned to complete the project in half a year.
But unexpectedly, Yunmeng Game officials suddenly launched a new event to select the most creative man-made buildings among players and reward them with limited edition medals.
As a die-hard fan of Yunmeng Games and a master player in the creative workshop, Zhou Xuan certainly didn't want to miss this event, so he signed up without even thinking about it.
However, the competition deadline is only until the middle of next month, which means there is only one month.
No matter how you think about it, it is a bit unrealistic to complete this huge project before the submission deadline.
"If that doesn't work, let's make the part of the Golden Palace first, and then submit this part separately."
Wang Ziyi also sighed.
"It can only be the."
Zhou Xuan can be said to be full of confidence in his own work.
However, what he didn't know was that he was not the only one who thought so, but other contestants also thought so.
While he and his friends in the group were busy working on the "construction site", other "Minecraft" UP owners on Station B also updated their works on their accounts.
Probably after seeing the terrifying number of submissions, many people have gradually realized that the smell of wine is also afraid of the depth of the alley.
At this moment, they didn't care that their creativity was seen by others. They cut their creative process into videos and uploaded them to video websites to canvass votes for themselves in advance.
After seeing these works, even Hao Yun had to sigh that these players are so talented.
Some players have restored the Terracotta Warriors and Horses at a 1:1 ratio, and others have restored Stormwind City in World of Warcraft.
However, this can only be regarded as average awesomeness.
There are even more awesome players who directly use redstone circuits to build a computer that can perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
And just like this, the player is not satisfied. He said in the video that he is studying how to improve the red stone computer and strive to play the magic tower in Minecraft.
In theory, this is not impossible. When he was designing Minecraft, Hao Yun had considered that there might be some hard-core players who would play with redstone circuits, so he was designing the redstone circuit series components. A lot of effort has been put into it over time, and some functions that originally required mods were even added.
The time is quickly approaching the end of October.
Good news came one after another.
The first is over at Yunmeng Villa.
Living up to the high expectations given by Hao Yun, this resort hotel located in a remote suburb south of Jiangcheng finally ushered in a small peak of passenger flow.
However, even though it is a small peak of customer flow, it is only compared to the crowded scene when it first opened. According to Lin Jun, the hotel is still operating at a loss stage. To achieve profitability, the occupancy rate must at least increase by about 50%.
Without asking what the current occupancy rate was, Hao Yun felt that it would be better to give Feng Tiancai a little more time. Moreover, Yunmeng Group now has so many profitable projects, even if two projects occasionally lose money, it doesn't seem to affect the overall situation very much.
Another thing is Zhang Tao's short video project called "Quick Sound".
Hao Yun really didn't expect that this guy's mobility was so high, and he found someone to develop the software in such a short time.
Although it is only a beta version now and there are not many interesting videos, it already has 10,000 to 20,000 active users, and the active users are mainly students in college circles.
This group of users has two major characteristics. One is that they accept new things quickly, and the other is that they are leisurely enough.
With these two elements at the same time, these users are both software users and content creators. Perhaps because Kuayin is still relatively niche, many people simply use this software as a circle of friends to share videos with strangers that are inconvenient to share in their circle of friends.
"The beta version has been running stably for a week, and its reputation among users is quite good. Some creators with a strong desire to share can even shoot five or more short videos a day."
“At the same time, we noticed that many users are sensitive to privacy issues, so we launched the function of blocking address books and blocking users in the same city. As long as these two functions are turned on, content creators basically do not need to single-line their own videos. It will be brushed by the people around you.”
"At present, the number of our videos is still too small, and we have to find ways to attract more content creators. According to the estimates of our marketing department analysts, only when the number of users reaches 500,000 will we be able to form a relatively stable In the creative ecosystem, the top priority now is to promote our APP.”
“So I propose to start the next round of financing as soon as possible.”
"Only by obtaining more funds can we spend money on promotion. And if we introduce stronger partners, maybe we can also use the resources of partners to further expand our user base."
In the conference room of Yunmeng Building.
Zhang Tao told Hao Yun these words in one breath.
After listening to his suggestion, Hao Yun thought for a few seconds and continued.
"How much will it cost?"
Zhang Tao took a deep breath and mustered up the courage to speak.
"Based on the current funding needs... I plan to raise 300 million in this round."
300 million is not a small amount of money.
When he said this, Zhang Tao actually didn't have much confidence in his heart.
After all, up to now, although Kuaiyin has shown a certain market potential, it has only shown its potential.
This is different from the original shared bicycles. Although Modern Bicycle was losing money on its books at that time, its assets were snowballing, so major companies were willing to invest money.
However, this short video software is currently a bottomless pit that burns money. Not to mention whether it is losing money or not, even a series of problems including the profit model have not been solved.
Only philanthropists and gamblers dare to donate generously to such a project.
However, what Zhang Tao didn't expect was that after hearing what he said, Hao Yun gently shook his head and gave an unexpected answer.
"Three hundred million is too little... Let me think about it, just five hundred million."
"What we need is not just traffic, but also big data algorithms to help users accurately match the content they want to see, and at the same time push them things they may be interested in... I will let the researchers from Yunmeng Technology help you solve this problem. .”
"I don't think we need to find anyone else. We will continue to lead this round of financing."